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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood

Published 1985 by McClelland and Stewart · 324 pages
Nebula Nominee 1987
Science FictionSynopsis
In the theocratic Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, a woman known only as Offred serves as a Handmaid, forced to bear children for the ruling elite in a society that has stripped women of all rights. Through her fragmented memories of a lost world and her harrowing present, she reveals the mechanisms of totalitarian control while secretly clinging to the hope of resistance and reunion with her family.
Classification
Details
Series
The Handmaid's Tale #1
Author Nationality
CA
Adaptation
The Handmaid's Tale (1990, both)
ISBN
9780771008139